CURRENT MISSION

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change

ABOUT ME

I'm currently a junior at Indiana University, but this year I am studying abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France. I really like to travel. Um... I'm not sure what to say about myself. I'm almost too clumsy to function on occasion. I'm an optimistic dreamer, who is very sarcastic- laughing is a very important part of a healthy balanced diet. I heart books, and I compulsively buy and read them. I think I'm a cool person but honestly I'm a huge dork.

PHILOSOPHY

Things never happen the way they're supposed to.
Everything happens for a reason.

Story of my life.

Here are some of my favorite quotes:

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
-Plato

Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.
-Dolly Parton

Change is so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't know that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it could just blow you away.
-Life as a House

Compassion for others rests on the recognition that the one asking for help differs little from the one offering.
-Conscience & Courage by Eva Fogelman

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
-Machiavelli

A resolved mind is as good as an action completed.
-Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-Martin Luther Kind, Jr.

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.
-The Interpreter, the movie

We don't love the people we love because they are perfect, we love the people we love because they are- even after they are gone.
-Brothers & Sisters tv show

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
-Vernon Howard

"It's easy to know what you're against, quite another to now what you're for."
-The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Interests

politics, French, traveling, history, WWII, art, astronomy, fashion, photography, cooking, food, BOOKS, movies, music, coffee and tea, culture, volunteering, hanging with friends, shopping, riding in trains and going on boats, running, snowboarding, thunder and lightning storms, the color blue, creativity, jazz, laughing, talking, watching sports (baseball, basketball and hockey), intelligent cultured people, Fall, October, Africa, and crazy, completely random adventures- spontaneity.

• arts
• culture
• books
• fashion
• photography
• coloring
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• dieting
• running
• shopping
• politics
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• watching sports
• music
• jazz
• snowboarding
• sports
• baseball
• basketball
• hockey
• astronomy
• history
• languages
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

I listen to pretty much everything. I especially like jazz and alternative stuff.

I LOVE movies, but I LOVE books even more. It would take all day to write down my favorites, so you'll just have to take my word for it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States